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Mr. Conason continued, “Saying that his use of personal email had been transformative for the department,” Mr. Powell “thus confirmed a decision she had made months earlier — to keep her personal account and use it for most messages.”

Appears this conversation, which Powell cannot recall, happened after she has decided to continue use of her private email.

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and the lie :keep her personal account and use it for most messages.”

She used it for *all* messages. Not state.gov email addy at all.